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[-] PrefersAwkward@lemmy.world 46 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

From what I understand, they're divesting resources that aren't in Firefox or at least involved in a trustworthy/open source AI project.

I see a lot of people in this theead are upset at this, but I'm tentatively excited. If they can pull off a good AI engine, especially built into the browser, that would be nice. If it had offline capabilities, that would be amazing.

Even if they can pull off a good AI solution that's not built into Firefox but it's offline, I'd be really excited. I'm not crazy about having especially detailed and intimate information being thrown to some vendor out there, not knowing where it's going. Modern AI can do some amazing things, but a lot of them reserve the right to have a human read whatever you put in them and warn you about that. This is too limiting to me for my preferred use-cases.

One concern I have is that Firefox and its engine are one of the last non-chromium browser platforms that have a household name and are FOSS. So to me, that has to be the first goal to keep healthy. Maybe the AI thing will help in this respect

[-] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

People read the headline and get angry, then want to tell everyone how angry they are. It's a badge of honour - look guys, I'm also angry.

Reading into their AI plans - it's to be run completely locally using only the data you want to give it, and it doesn't send info back to Mozilla.

Now, personally, my biggest issues with AI is data collection and where the training data comes from. It seems for FF, neither of these will be problematic, so I don't see the issue.

[-] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 10 months ago

Training data could still be an issue, but if anyone is going to do it right it’s Mozilla.

[-] spaduf@slrpnk.net 7 points 10 months ago

Though, it's tough to pull from the headline/discussion this pivot is explicitly meant to refocus on the browser.

As far as the AI stuff goes, Mozilla has long been the most ethical player in this space. All of their datasets/models are open source and usually crowdsourced. Not to mention, their existing work is primarily in improving accessibility. It's really hard to see how this is a bad thing.

[-] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 3 points 10 months ago

If they just built a browser and started acting like a foundation, I’d support them in a heart beat. As it happens today, I feel like I’m pouring money into a set of holes that neither I, nor seemingly the whole world, has much interest in.

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